Show some amore for Dolce Italian, a very large, very patio-forward house of pasta that you’re
about to spend a lot of time in, opening tomorrow at Buckhead Atlanta. (It looks like this.)

This place is grand in the way vast, wood-lined walls are grand. And in the way soft leather booths and
white marble tables are grand. And specifically, in the way 28-day barrel-aged Negronis are grand. Time for
a new word.

And even though it’s an obvious home-run scenario for staying inside with a date and eating linguine with
clams and veal piccata among old photos of beautiful bikini-clad Italians, you should stick to the patio for
now.

One side has café tables and a not-small tufted sofa. That’s where you’ll sit and look wistfully off
into the sunset and talk about how you both love dogs and Mastroianni movies and you both hate empty Negroni
glasses.

The other side is even longer with more table room, more fading summer breezes and more opportunities for
shared spicy-salami pizzas.